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05 July 2018 07:29:30
. Novichok Russian Neurological Agent
The police stated that there was no evidence that they had visited the same sites that were decontaminated after the Skripal case
"I received test results from Porton Down [military research centre] that show that the two people Neil Basu, the highest ranking British anti-terrorism, told the press that the British antiterrorist police conducted the investigation and said the case was related to the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were a line of investigation [19659007] But Mr. Basu said that there was no re to indicate that the man and the woman had been deliberately targeted. 59011] A person walks through the front door of the Salisbury District Hospital. "title =" Salisbury District Hospital entrance "width =" 340 "height =" 227 "/>
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The man and the woman are in the same hospital as the one where Sergei Skirpal was treated. (AP: Tim Ockenden, PA)
He also told reporters that the police did not yet know how Novichok's neurotoxic agent was being transmitted.
The man, 45, and the woman, 44 a critical condition in the hospital after being found unconscious in a residential building in Amesbury on Saturday night (local time).
Police did not name the couple, but friends named Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess.
Sam Hobson says that he was with them on Saturday, when Mrs. Sturgess became ill at first.
He told Sky News that she "had a fit, foam was coming out of her mouth"
M. Rowley's collapsed later the same day. "He was sweating, he was dribbling … he was rocking back and forth," Hobson said.
"There was no answer from him, he did not even know I was there."
More to come.
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Published
05 July 2018 07:05:16
